California elections

How's this for a top-10 list, Dave: The top 10 congressional candidates who spent millions of dollars of their own money on campaigns and still lost on Tuesday?
Well, all right, two on the big-spende...

(Nov. 3) -- Californians are just going to have to face the facts and smoke weed the old-fashioned way -- with a medical prescription.
That's because the heavily publicized Proposition 19 -- a ballo...

(Nov. 3) -- A Democratic state senator who died last month was easily re-elected in California, denying the GOP the seat and probably forcing the governor to call a special election.
Sen. Jenny Orope...

Everything old is new again in California, where Democrat Jerry Brown defeated big-spending GOP rival Meg Whitman and was elected governor, an office he held for two terms nearly 30 years ago.
The L...

The anti-incumbent wave didn't quite reach California, where Democrat Barbara Boxer won a fourth term in the Senate after a bruising campaign in which Republican Carly Fiorina unsuccessfully tried to ...

A flood of new polls on this year's key governor and Senate races came out Sunday and Monday, and here are the ones that showed the tightest races and those where the margins are larger, but the outco...

Republicans will edge close toward control of the Senate Tuesday but are unlikely to be able to seal the deal.
While the GOP is widely favored to win back the House, it faces a narrower path to victo...

More than $4 billion will be spent on the 2010 midterm elections -- the lion's share of it on advertising on television, radio, and even a bit on the Internet. But what are we getting for all that mon...

WASHINGTON (Oct. 29) -- Memo to novice political candidates: Know thy Constitution. Don't tell Hispanics they look Asian. Pay special attention to what you say when you are in front of cameras. Which ...